Ray's Blog: August 2012
Fifty Shades Of Prayer For Churches
The Blake family of six share my one bed-roomed cottage this week. They help lead youth and prayer ministries at my former church of Bowthorpe.
Pete Ward (of 24/7 prayer) and Andrea are here on retreat. Over a pint the guys discussed this question: ‘How do you sustain a really praying...
Escomb Launches 'celtic Church'
The parish church at Escomb, by the river Wear, County Durham UK, was established after Saint Aidan’s death in 651 and before the Lindisfarne Gospels - a multi-cultural witness for which maJor celebrations are being planned - were produced in 713. Escomb is one of only three Anglo-Saxon church buildings from...
What Is Celtic Spirituality? Asked The Pilgrim
Pilate asked Jesus 'What is truth?' and would not wait for an answer. People who study only through the head and not also through the heart dismissively ask 'What is Celtic spirituality?' A music therapist from Norway yesterday asked me for Celtic music, and I, playing devil's advocate like Pilate, ...
Aidan And Hilda Worship Spreads
Carol Smith writes: 'It was such a joy and a privilege to be leading worship with CA&H members in the chapel built by Saint Cedd of Lindisfarne at Bradwell, Essex. I said I think he would be pleased that worship is still being offered in the house of prayer that...
Three Super Olympic Gifts
The three Olympic aspirations are Higher, Faster, Stronger. But some of the food and drink chains who sponsor the Olympic Village are unfit for purpose. As www.stuff.co.nz points out, Greedier, Lazier, Hungrier might be the three ‘gifts’ of such sponsors. They mock the three Olympic gifts. This week non-Olympians came to Holy Island...
